Privacy Policy

Effective Date: March 6, 2026

Care 4 Lives Foundation (“Care 4 Lives,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, share, and safeguard personal information when you visit care4lives.com, contact us, register for our activities, make donations, subscribe to updates, or otherwise interact with us online.

This Policy is intended to reflect our commitment to responsible data handling and to align with applicable law in Ghana, including the Data Protection Act, 2012 (Act 843). The Data Protection Commission is the regulatory body responsible for data protection compliance in Ghana. 

Care 4 Lives Foundation is a Ghana-based organization focused on youth empowerment, creative education, digital skills, mentorship, media, outreach, and community impact.

We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us, including:

• your name.
   
• email address.
   
• phone number.
   
• organization or school name.
   
• location or address details you choose to share.
   
• messages, inquiries, and form responses.
   
• registration details for programs, workshops, events, volunteering, partnerships, or campaigns.
   
• donation-related information, excluding full payment card details where payments are processed by third-party providers.
   
• photos, videos, testimonials, or media you submit to us voluntarily.
   
• any other information you choose to send to us.
   

We may also collect limited technical data automatically when you use our website, such as:

• IP address.
   
• browser type.
   
• device information.
   
• pages visited.
   
• date and time of access.
   
• referring website or source.
   
• basic cookie or analytics information.
   

We may use personal information to:

• Respond to inquiries and requests.
   
• process registrations, sign-ups, and participation requests.
   
• manage donations, sponsorship inquiries, or partnership communication.
   
• Provide updates about our programs, events, campaigns, blog posts, media, and activities.
   
• improve our website, content, and user experience.
   
• maintain internal records and administrative processes.
   
• Protect our website, users, and organization from misuse or fraud.
   
• comply with legal and regulatory obligations.
   
• document and communicate our impact where consent or another lawful basis applies.
   

Where required, we process personal data on lawful grounds such as:

• Your consent.
   
• performance of a request or relationship with you.
   
• compliance with legal obligations.
   
• our legitimate organizational interests, provided your rights and interests are respected.
   

Our website may use cookies or similar technologies to improve functionality, remember preferences, understand website traffic, and enhance user experience.

You can adjust your browser settings to refuse or limit cookies. However, some parts of the website may not function properly if cookies are disabled.

We do not sell your personal information.

We may share personal data only were reasonably necessary, including with:

• trusted service providers who support our website, communications, analytics, hosting, or payment processes.
   
• professional advisers where necessary.
   
• regulators, law enforcement, or public authorities, where required by law.
   
• project partners or collaborating institutions where relevant to a program, event, or activity, and where an appropriate lawful basis exists.
   

Any sharing is limited to what is reasonably necessary for the intended purpose.

When you make a donation or payment, your transaction may be handled by a third-party payment processor. In such cases, payment data is processed according to the provider’s own privacy and security practices. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any payment service you use.

We keep personal data only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Policy, including communication, administration, legal compliance, safeguarding, accountability, and organizational recordkeeping.

When personal data is no longer needed, we will take reasonable steps to delete it, anonymize it, or securely store it in accordance with applicable requirements.

We take reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.

However, no website, internet transmission, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You provide information to us at your own risk, and we encourage you not to send highly sensitive information through unsecured channels unless necessary.

Because some of our work relates to young people, we take privacy involving children and minors seriously.

We encourage parents, guardians, schools, and responsible adults to be involved where personal information is submitted by individuals under 18, especially for registrations, media participation, mentorship engagement, and public-facing activities.

Where consent is required for a child’s participation, media use, or personal data processing, we may request confirmation from a parent, guardian, school, or authorized adult.

Subject to applicable law, you may have the right to:

• Request access to the personal data we hold about you.
• Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
• Request deletion of personal data in appropriate circumstances.
• Object to or restrict certain processing.
• Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
• L has a complaint with the appropriate regulator.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details below.

Our website may contain links to external websites, social media pages, video platforms, partner sites, donation pages, or third-party tools. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those external services. We encourage you to read their privacy notices before using them.

Where online tools or service providers process data outside Ghana, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that personal data is handled with appropriate safeguards and only where reasonably necessary for our operations.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, website features, legal obligations, or operational needs. When we make changes, we will post the updated version on this page and revise the effective date above.

If you have any questions, requests, or concerns about this Privacy Policy or how we process personal data, please contact us:

Care 4 Lives Foundation
Vera Street, Community 4, Tema, Greater Accra, Ghana
Email: info@care4lives.com
Phone: +233 25 702 4375/ 233 54 676 6739

You may also contact the Data Protection Commission of Ghana if you believe your data protection rights have been violated or if you wish to make a complaint.